“It’s a big story in Russia and it led the French news today,” said
Martin Bright, the Observer’s home affairs editor. Bright, who helped
write the story, was reached on his cellphone as he drove home from an
interview with Canadian TV. Bright said that he had agreed to interviews
with NBC, CNN, and Fox News Channel—and that all three had called and
canceled. But the report that the U.S. is spying on U.N. Security
Council members—and seeking allied intelligence agencies to do the
same—has quickly spread
throughout the world.

The story of the London
Observer’s scoop on a secret surveillance program, coverage of which
is entirely absent Stateside.